Chapter 41.32 RCW

TEACHERS' RETIREMENT

Sections

"PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO PLAN 1, PLAN 2, AND PLAN 3"
HTMLPDF 41.32.005Provisions applicable to "plan 1," "plan 2," and "plan 3."
HTMLPDF 41.32.010Definitions.
HTMLPDF 41.32.012Construction—Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships—2009 c 521.
HTMLPDF 41.32.013Substitute teachers—Application for service credit—Procedures.
HTMLPDF 41.32.020Name of system.
HTMLPDF 41.32.025Department's power to determine eligibility.
HTMLPDF 41.32.032Membership in system—Service credit of educational staff associates.
HTMLPDF 41.32.033Membership in system—Charter school employers and employees.
HTMLPDF 41.32.035Employer contribution rates—Computation and payment.
HTMLPDF 41.32.042Validity of deductions—Interest.
HTMLPDF 41.32.044Retired teacher may reenter system—Benefit limitations.
HTMLPDF 41.32.052Exemption from taxation and judicial process—Exceptions—Nonassignability—Deductions authorized.
HTMLPDF 41.32.053Death benefit—Course of employment—Occupational disease or infection.
HTMLPDF 41.32.054Disability retirement—Criminal conduct.
HTMLPDF 41.32.055Falsification—Penalty.
HTMLPDF 41.32.062Effect of certain accumulated vacation leave on retirement benefits.
HTMLPDF 41.32.063Benefit calculation—Limitation.
HTMLPDF 41.32.064Establishing, restoring service credit.
HTMLPDF 41.32.0641Disabled in the line of duty—Continuation of service credit—Conditions.
HTMLPDF 41.32.065Election to use out-of-state service credit to calculate time at which the member may retire.
HTMLPDF 41.32.066Purchase of additional service credit—Costs—Rules.
HTMLPDF 41.32.067Purchase of additional benefits—Conditions.
"PLAN 1"
HTMLPDF 41.32.215Provisions applicable to plan 1.
HTMLPDF 41.32.240Membership in system.
HTMLPDF 41.32.260Credit for military service or as state legislator.
HTMLPDF 41.32.263State legislators and state officials eligible for retirement benefits.
HTMLPDF 41.32.267Service credit for paid leave of absence—Application to elected officials of labor organizations.
HTMLPDF 41.32.270Teaching service, how credited.
HTMLPDF 41.32.300Limitation on credit for out-of-state service.
HTMLPDF 41.32.310Time limit for claiming service credit—Payments.
HTMLPDF 41.32.330Credit for professional preparation subsequent to becoming teacher.
HTMLPDF 41.32.340Creditable service, what to consist of.
HTMLPDF 41.32.345"Earnable compensation" defined for certain part-time employees—Adoption of rules.
HTMLPDF 41.32.350Purchase of additional annuity—Member contribution rate.
HTMLPDF 41.32.380Source of pension reserve—Contributions.
HTMLPDF 41.32.390Contributions for prior service credits.
HTMLPDF 41.32.470Eligibility for retirement allowance.
HTMLPDF 41.32.480Qualifications for retirement.
HTMLPDF 41.32.483Annual increase amount—Legislature's rights reserved—No additional increases after June 30, 2011.
HTMLPDF 41.32.485Minimum retirement allowance—Cost-of-living adjustment—Post-retirement adjustment—Computation.
HTMLPDF 41.32.4851Minimum retirement allowance—Annual adjustment—Persons who become beneficiaries after June 30, 1995.
HTMLPDF 41.32.4872Permanent increase for specified beneficiaries age seventy or over.
HTMLPDF 41.32.489Retirement allowance—Annual increases restricted after July 1, 2010—Eligibility.
HTMLPDF 41.32.4931Additional special pension for former members not receiving social security.
HTMLPDF 41.32.4945Limitation as to earnable compensation of member as member of the legislature.
HTMLPDF 41.32.497Retirement allowance for members entering system before April 25, 1973—Election.
HTMLPDF 41.32.498Retirement allowance for members entering system after April 25, 1973, or in lieu of allowance under RCW 41.32.497.
HTMLPDF 41.32.4986Members with thirty years of service—Irrevocable election.
HTMLPDF 41.32.4991Permanent retirement allowance adjustment.
HTMLPDF 41.32.4992Monthly benefit increase.
HTMLPDF 41.32.500Termination of membership.
HTMLPDF 41.32.510Payment on withdrawal—Reentry.
HTMLPDF 41.32.520Payment on death before retirement or within sixty days following application for disability retirement—Military service.
HTMLPDF 41.32.522Death benefits.
HTMLPDF 41.32.523Death benefits—Members not qualified for benefits under RCW 41.32.522 and retired former members.
HTMLPDF 41.32.530Options available—Retirement allowance adjustment—Court-approved property settlement.
HTMLPDF 41.32.540Disability allowance—Temporary.
HTMLPDF 41.32.550Options and allowances on report that disability will be permanent—Reexamination.
HTMLPDF 41.32.555Persons with annual half-time contracts—Eligibility for benefits under RCW 41.32.550.
HTMLPDF 41.32.570Postretirement employment—Reduction or suspension of pension payments.
HTMLPDF 41.32.581End of participation in judicial retirement account plan—Newly elected or appointed judges.
HTMLPDF 41.32.584Additional benefit for justices or judges—One-time irrevocable election.
HTMLPDF 41.32.587Justices or judges retirement allowance—In lieu of RCW 41.32.498.
"PLAN 2"
HTMLPDF 41.32.755Provisions applicable to plan 2.
HTMLPDF 41.32.760Computation of the retirement allowance.
HTMLPDF 41.32.762Lump sum retirement allowance—Reentry—Conditions for reinstatement of service.
HTMLPDF 41.32.765Retirement for service.
HTMLPDF 41.32.768Member with terminal illness—Removal from system.
HTMLPDF 41.32.770Post-retirement cost-of-living.
HTMLPDF 41.32.780Teachers required to be members.
HTMLPDF 41.32.785Options for payment of retirement allowances—Retirement allowance adjustment—Court-approved property settlement.
HTMLPDF 41.32.790Earned disability allowance—Eligibility—Disposition upon death of recipient.
HTMLPDF 41.32.795Application for and effective date of retirement allowances.
HTMLPDF 41.32.800Suspension of retirement allowance upon reemployment or if covered by a plan under RCW 28B.10.400—Reinstatement.
HTMLPDF 41.32.802Reduction of retirement allowance upon reemployment or if covered by a plan under RCW 28B.10.400—Reestablishment of membership.
HTMLPDF 41.32.805Death benefits.
HTMLPDF 41.32.810Service credit for paid leave of absence, officers of labor organizations, unpaid leave of absence, military service.
HTMLPDF 41.32.812Service credit for half-time employment from October 1, 1977, through December 31, 1986.
HTMLPDF 41.32.813One-time purchase of service credit—Conditions—Payment—Rules.
HTMLPDF 41.32.815Vested membership.
HTMLPDF 41.32.817Transfer to plan 3—Irrevocable option.
HTMLPDF 41.32.818Public employees' retirement system members who previously declined membership in the teachers' retirement system—Transfer to plan 3—Irrevocable option.
HTMLPDF 41.32.820Refund of contributions on termination.
HTMLPDF 41.32.825Reentry.
"PLAN 3"
HTMLPDF 41.32.831Provisions applicable to plan 3—Plan 3 elements.
HTMLPDF 41.32.835Choice of membership in plan 2 or plan 3.
HTMLPDF 41.32.836Higher education faculty—Option to transfer to plan 3—Limitation on supplemental benefits under RCW 28B.10.400.
HTMLPDF 41.32.837Right to waive benefit—Irrevocable choice.
HTMLPDF 41.32.840Computation of the retirement allowance.
HTMLPDF 41.32.8401Additional payment.
HTMLPDF 41.32.845Postretirement cost-of-living allowance.
HTMLPDF 41.32.851Options for payment of retirement allowances—Court-approved property settlement.
HTMLPDF 41.32.855Application for and effective date of retirement allowances.
HTMLPDF 41.32.860Suspension of retirement allowance upon reemployment or if covered by a plan under RCW 28B.10.400—Reinstatement.
HTMLPDF 41.32.862Reduction of retirement allowance upon reemployment or if covered by a plan under RCW 28B.10.400—Reestablishment of membership.
HTMLPDF 41.32.865Service credit for paid leave of absence, officers of labor organizations, unpaid leave of absence, military service.
HTMLPDF 41.32.867Purchased service credit—Allocation.
HTMLPDF 41.32.868One-time purchase of service credit—Conditions—Payment—Rules.
HTMLPDF 41.32.870Lump sum payments—Reentry.
HTMLPDF 41.32.875Retirement eligibility.
HTMLPDF 41.32.878Member with terminal illness—Removal from system.
HTMLPDF 41.32.880Earned disability allowance—Eligibility—Disposition upon death of recipient.
HTMLPDF 41.32.892Restored, purchased service credit under plan 2—Transfer to plan 3.
HTMLPDF 41.32.895Death benefits.

NOTES:

Numerical designations—1998 c 341: See note following chapter 41.26 RCW digest.
Prior acts relating to teachers' retirement: (1) 1943 c 116; 1941 c 97; 1939 c 86, 40; 1937 c 221 (repealed by 1947 c 80 s 70).
(2) 1931 c 115; 1923 c 187; 1919 c 150; 1917 c 163 (repealed by 1937 c 221 s 14).
Employee salary or compensation—Limitations respecting: RCW 28A.400.220.
Portability of public retirement benefits: Chapter 41.54 RCW.
Teachers in state correctional facilities as members of teachers' retirement fund: RCW 72.01.200.